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Every day on Twitter and in real life, we keep hearing about men being pathological liars — people who live and breathe dishonesty. While we’re not denying that any of these allegations are true, people need to understand that men don’t just wake up one day and say, “I want to spend the rest of my life lying.” No. We’re logical beings with a reason behind everything we do, including lying, and this article will show you seven reasons why men choose the path of dishonesty.

1. Just for fun

You have to realise that boys just wanna have fun, and women hate seeing men have fun. If you see a man lying, he’s just doing something to make himself happy. Relax and don’t think too much into it.

2. It’s in their DNA

Generations and generations of Nigerian men lying means every Nigerian man today has a lying gene. If your great grandfather, grandfather and father spent half their lives lying, what do you now want to do in your own life? Sometimes, Nigerian men catch themselves lying involuntarily and wonder where it came from. It’s from your ancestors, bro. It’s part of you.

3. To win elections

“I will feed your families. I will clothe you. I will make breakfast in bed for you every day. We’ll all share my salary. I’m for everybody. I will actually do my job as president and not become a travel blogger.”

4. To test women

Do you really know your man? The answer is no because when he tests you by lying about something you should know, you fail the test and disappoint him by believing. These are the issues.

5. Saying the truth requires too much energy

Why go into all the stressful details saying the truth when you can just lie?

6. Lying is a good form of mental exercise

Not everyone is like Tunde Onakoya. We can’t all use actual intellectual games to do mental exercise. Chess is boring, lying is interesting.

7. As practice for when they actually need to lie

Yes, sometimes we need to lie, so some times, our lies are practice sessions for the lies that may count later in life.

David Odunlami

February 22, 2022

Man Dem

lying
Which lie do you find it easy to tell? Take the quiz and we’ll expose you:

Miriam Onyemenam

September 23, 2021

In Your Feels, Quizzes

Lies, lying, Personality
We’ve all told lies at one point or the other in our lives.

Big lies. Little white lies. (Why do the little lies have to be ‘white’ though? Can’t black people tell little lies? Can’t it be little black lies? So much white privilege even in lying too? Where my protesters at!!) Okay, maybe we’ll put the protest on hold for now and get back to the story.
The fact is though, regardless of whatever size of the lie, some people are really good at lying while others simply suck. This is a story of how I sucked at lying to my mother and how that shit backfired.

One beautiful Saturday morning when I was in primary 3, I found a one naira coin under our living room couch.

Old Herb was looking at me like, “Pick me! Pick me!” So I did and showed it to my mother.
Mother instantly gave me the eye.

As per, the first step of action according to the Mothering Handbook.
Then she was like, “Is it your own?”

And then she told me to put it back. But of course I didn’t listen.
The next Monday, I took Old Herb to school.

After school, I stopped by the little kiosk outside the school gate and bought one stick of robot bubble gum.

…because that was all the one naira could afford back then.
But I was very happy with my purchase.

I was never given money to bring to school because I always brought food for lunch and home was a stone’s throw away. So I was very excited about being able to buy something on my own.
I chewed my robot gum with pride and skipped all the way back home.

Immediately my mother saw me, she looked at me like:

“What are you eating?”
At first, I feigned ignorance.

But my mother was like:

So I told her I was chewing gum.

I could not even try to lie.
Things escalated pretty quickly from there.

“Gum? Where did you get it? Who gave you? So you’ve started collecting things anyhow from people abi? Are you not supposed to show me first before you eat it?”
All the shouting started to make my head turn and ruined my focus.

Before I knew it, I told her I hadn’t collected the gum from anybody.

Then her face went like this:

Oho? So where did you get it then?
At this moment, I knew I was in too deep and there was no going back.

When I told her I bought the gum from the kiosk in school, she looked at me like:

“Really? With which money?” Which was really a trick question because she knew I didn’t have any money.
I knew I was in trouble when she started to laugh like this:

“Oho! You used that one naira I told you to return abi? You’ve turned to a thief now abi?”
I jejely carried myself to face the wall for my beating.

She made me put the gum on the floor and look at it as she beat me.

I wasn’t even sure which one she was more upset about; the trying to lie thing or the taking the money after she said not to thing.
I just knew that after that day, I could never look at another stick of robot bubble gum the same way again.

I was a learner when it comes to lying, but ever had a classmate that just likes lying anyhow?
https://zikoko.com/list/classmate-just-used-lie/

Ronke Otega

April 27, 2017

General

lying, Nigerian parents, Story
1. Hmm, we don’t know what always motivated these people oh, but they just used to drop gist nobody asked for

2. That’s when you’ll start hearing how thier daddy was so angry that they took light in their house in VI, he had to run to thier house in Banana Island to get AC

3. Before you know it, you’ll start adding weight from all the lies they’ve been feeding you

4. Once they open their mouths to say anything like this, everybody’s face just turns like this:

5. The worst part is when people start using their names when they want to say someone is lying, like: ‘ahan, why are you Deji-ing like this?’

Boyin Plumptre

March 25, 2017

Oldies

classmate, lying

1. Just for fun

2. It’s in their DNA

3. To win elections

4. To test women

5. Saying the truth requires too much energy

6. Lying is a good form of mental exercise

7. As practice for when they actually need to lie

We’ve all told lies at one point or the other in our lives.

The fact is though, regardless of whatever size of the lie, some people are really good at lying while others simply suck. This is a story of how I sucked at lying to my mother and how that shit backfired.

One beautiful Saturday morning when I was in primary 3, I found a one naira coin under our living room couch.

Mother instantly gave me the eye.

Then she was like, “Is it your own?”

The next Monday, I took Old Herb to school.

After school, I stopped by the little kiosk outside the school gate and bought one stick of robot bubble gum.

But I was very happy with my purchase.

I chewed my robot gum with pride and skipped all the way back home.

Immediately my mother saw me, she looked at me like:

At first, I feigned ignorance.

But my mother was like:

So I told her I was chewing gum.

Things escalated pretty quickly from there.

All the shouting started to make my head turn and ruined my focus.

Before I knew it, I told her I hadn’t collected the gum from anybody.

Then her face went like this:

At this moment, I knew I was in too deep and there was no going back.

When I told her I bought the gum from the kiosk in school, she looked at me like:

I knew I was in trouble when she started to laugh like this:

I jejely carried myself to face the wall for my beating.

She made me put the gum on the floor and look at it as she beat me.

I just knew that after that day, I could never look at another stick of robot bubble gum the same way again.

I was a learner when it comes to lying, but ever had a classmate that just likes lying anyhow?

1. Hmm, we don’t know what always motivated these people oh, but they just used to drop gist nobody asked for

2. That’s when you’ll start hearing how thier daddy was so angry that they took light in their house in VI, he had to run to thier house in Banana Island to get AC

3. Before you know it, you’ll start adding weight from all the lies they’ve been feeding you

4. Once they open their mouths to say anything like this, everybody’s face just turns like this:

5. The worst part is when people start using their names when they want to say someone is lying, like: ‘ahan, why are you Deji-ing like this?’